All news on the topic: Benefit cheats

The DWP has responded to a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) request on how it investigates and cracks down on benefit fraud, including whether neighbours can be asked to help

Annette Bond, 49, claimed a series of physical impairments meant she could hardly walk or get out of bed - until fraud investigators caught her taking 5k runs in her neighbourhood

The Department for Work and Pensions is expanding its efforts to tackle benefit fraud - introducing a new civil penalty to penalise fraudsters and widening the range of cases that can receive a penalty

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a raft of changes to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and Universal Credit system, including a major overhaul of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system

New powers to be granted to the DWP will include searches, seizures and arrests, as well as civil penalties handed out to more offenders suspected of benefit fraud

The gang of five ran organised criminal 'factories' filing thousands of fake Universal Credit claims in what was described as the UK's largest ever benefit fraud scheme

The DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) has issued a bank warning to all benefit claimants ahead of a clampdown on benefit fraud, in which it will check data of some claimants

Barbara Ioele, 50, didn't work for 24 years after lying about her 17 pregnancies - which she faked by stuffing pillows up her top to emulate a bump, local press reports

Sharon Berkley, 56, pleaded guilty to two fraud offences after it was found she recieved benefits claims worth over £57,000 - despite not being eligible for them

Ali Bana Mohamed, from Manchester, was issued an ultimatum to return costs of £2million or be faced with further jail time - it comes after he made an elaborate scheme to claim benefits

Mum Danielle Muirhead, 32, from Walton, Liverpool, scammed over £36,000 in Universal Credit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit after her two youngest children went into care in March 2018

The language around disability fuels the way disabled people are treated by government, society and media. This is why Rosie Jones should change the name of her documentary

For too long when disabled people are given the bare minimum to allow us to survive we’re expected to thank our oppressors

The Conservatives publicising their benefit fraud raids is a tactical campaign to get the public’s support in killing disabled and other at-risk people

Labour claimed billions lost to benefit error and fraud could’ve paid for another cost of living payment, but we need to stop pitting the most vulnerable against each other